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MANHA TTAN 
1624      m  1639 


by 

EDWARD  VAN  WINKLE 

RECORDING  SECRETARY 
of 

THE  HOLLAND  SOCIETY  OF  NEW  YORK 


NINETY  WEST  STREET 
NEW  YORK  CITY 
M     C     M     X     V  I 


COPYRIGHT  1916  BY  EDWARD  VAN  WINKLE 
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Published 
at 

NINETY  WEST  STREET.  NEW  YORK  CITY 

Printed 
by 

THE  KNICKERBOCKER  PRESS 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 


TO 

CAPTAIN  ALBERT  HARRISON  VAN  DEUSEN 

A  DESCENDANT 
OF  ONE  OF  THE  EARLY  OCCUPANTS 
of  a 

BOUWERIE  ON  "MANATUS" 
a 

CO-WORKER  IN  THE  REALM 
of 

HISTORICAL  RESEARCH 
THIS  VOLUME  IS  RESPECTFULLY  DEDICATED 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 


The  author  takes  extreme  pleasure  in  acknowledging  the 
great  assistance  rendered  by  Dingman  Versteeg,  who  not 
only  translated  the  Dutch  on  the  original  map  and  manu- 
script, but  in  the  solution  of  knotty  problems  rendered  able 
advice  which  made  the  task  much  simpler.  He  has  read 
over  the  manuscript  and  his  suggestions  were  very  helpful; 
and  the  author  hereby  acknowledges  his  indebtedness  to  him. 


V 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Provincial  Seal  of  Nieuw  Nederland  1623      ....  viii 

City  Seal  of  Nieuw  Amsterdam  1654   viii 

New  York  City  Seal  1669   viii 

"  De  Halve  Maen"  (Initial  Letter)   I 

Van  Rensselaer  Manuscript   37 

Vingboom  Map — Photographic  Copy   39 

Vingboom  Map — Full-Size  Tracing   47 


NEW  YORK  CITY  SEAL  1669 


MANHATTAN  FROM  1624  TO  1639 


HE  cartographer  of  Amsterdam,  Holland, 
Joan  Vingboom,  made  many  manu- 
script maps  for  the  West  India  Com- 
pany, not  the  least  important  of  which 
is  the  one  of  "MANATUS,"  dated 
1639.  The  map,  twenty-six  and  five- 
eighth  inches  by  eighteen  and  one- 
fourth  inches  in  size,  shows  Manhattan 
Island  with  Westchester  and  Bronx  Counties  on  the  North; 
a  good  part  of  Long  Island  on  the  East;  the  Bay,  Sant  Punt, 
and  Hoogen  Hoeck  on  the  South;  with  Staten  Island,  Achter 
t'  Col,  Newark  Bay,  the  Hackensack  and  Passaic  Rivers  on 
the  West.  Sufficient  of  the  surrounding  country  is  shown  to 
give  a  good  idea  of  the  comparative  importance  of  the  Island 
of  Manhattan  and  its  location  with  respect  to  the  mainland. 
The  value  of  this  map  is  greatly  enhanced  because  of  an  inset 
giving  the  names  of  the  early  settlers  on  Manhattan,  their 
bouweries  or  farms  being  numbered  correspondingly  and 
located  on  the  map.    Some  time  during  the  middle  of  the 

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seventeenth  century  this  map  passed  into  the  hands  of  Hulst 
and  Van  Keulen,  a  publishing  firm  of  Amsterdam,  and  two 
hundred  years  later  it  was  added  to  the  library  of  Henry 
Harrisse,  where  it  reposed  unknown  to  the  world  until  1892, 
at  which  time  it  was  exhibited  in  Paris  at  the  Columbian 
Exhibition  of  Maps  and  Globes  during  the  month  of  July  in 
that  year. 

Henry  Harrisse  was  a  bibliographer  of  considerable  note. 
In  1892  he  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Legion  of  Honor  by  the 
French  Government.  He  allowed  no  reproductions  of  the 
Vingboom  Map  during  his  lifetime,  but  by  his  will  gave  it, 
with  others,  to  the  Library  of  Congress.  Early  in  1916 
this  map  was  delivered  to  the  Library  of  Congress  in  accord- 
ance with  his  bequest.  It  is  perfectly  preserved,  the  colors 
laid  by  the  hands  of  Joan  Vingboom  being  firm  and  the  lines 
clear  and  strong.  The  large  cloth  map  which  is  here  appended 
was  traced  from  a  full  size  photo  print  of  the  original  and 
carefully  compared.  The  translation  was  made  by  Dingman 
Versteeg,  Library  Clerk  of  The  Holland  Society  of  New  York, 
and  is  accurately  presented. 

The  second  map  of  Manhattan,  which  for  many  years  was 
accorded  first  honors,  is  a  map  of  "t'  Fort  Nieuw  Amsterdam 
op  de  Manhattans"  by  Joost  Hartgers,  published  in  165 1, 
which  illustrates  the  early  topography  of  New  Amsterdam, 
probably  sketched  by  means  of  a  plain  camera  obscured  from 
some  point  on  the  Long  Island  shore.  This  map  was  engraved 
on  copper  and  by  some  is  said  to  have  been  "concocted  in 
the  tiny  back  parlor"  by  Hartgers,  to  illustrate  his  little 
book.  It  shows  the  fort  and  some  buildings  on  the  lower 
portion  of  the  Island.  Mr.  J.  H.  Innes,  in  his  book  New 
Amsterdam  and  Its  People,  page  2,  states  that  the  map  was 
made  between  1628  and  1632,  and  gives  his  reasons  for  this 
belief.  It  certainly  shows  less  development  of  Manhattan 
than  the  Vingboom  Map  and  it  does  not  locate  the  eight 


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Company  Bouweries  of  the  Van  Rensselaer  Manuscript,  to  be 
later  discussed,  which  tends  to  fix  the  date  prior  to  1630. 

The  church  that  was  built  in  1633  is  not  shown  on  either 
the  Vingboom  or  the  Hartgers  Map. 

The  1639  Map  of  Vingboom,  taken  in  conjunction  with  the 
Van  Rensselaer  Manuscript  of  1630,  heretofore  unpublished, 
mentioned  in  The  Holland  Society  Year  Book,  IQ15,  page  9, 
and  herein  illustrated,  is  most  interesting.  It  shows  the 
occupants  of  the  Company's  Bouweries  from  1624  to  1636 
which  were  not  occupied  in  1639  when  the  map  was  made 
by  Vingboom. 

The  occupants  of  the  Bouweries  follow: 


1— THE  COMMANDER'S  HOUSE—1639 

Bouwerie  No.  1  was  occupied  in  1626  by  Peter  Minuit, 
a  Director  who  came  from  Wesel  in  Germany,  having  received 
his  appointment  from  the  chartered  West  India  Company 
in  the  fall  of  1625.  He  sailed  on  the  Het  Meeuwtje  (The 
Little  Meu)  sometimes  written  Meeuwken  (Sea  Men),  arriving 
in  New  Amsterdam  on  May  4,  1626,  to  take  charge  of  the 
Colony  then  "consisting  of  two  hundred  souls."  He  made  a 
survey  of  Manhattan  and  found  the  island  to  be  "eleven 
thousand  morgens  (about  twenty-two  thousand  acres)  in 
size,"  with  practically  the  topography  shown  on  the  Vingboom 
Map  illustrated  herewith.  He  immediately  appointed  a 
council  of  five  members,  consisting  of  Peter  Bylevelt,  Jacob 
Elbertsen  Wissinck,  Jan  Jansen  Brouwer,  Symon  Dirckssen 
Pos  (Post),  Reynert  Harmensen  with  Isaac  de  Rasieres  as 
secretary  and  Jan  Lampo  as  schout-fiscal;  governing  New  Neth- 
erland  for  a  little  less  than  six  years.  Bouwerie  No.  1  is  men- 
tioned as  "The  Company  farm  with  an  imposing  house"  and 
can  be  seen  on  the  map  on  Deutel  Kill  near  the  East  River. 


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Notwithstanding  his  government  was  a  success  he  was 
called  home  by  the  chartered  West  India  Company,  owing 
to  factions  in  Amsterdam,  and  left  the  government  in  the 
hands  of  Bastiaen  Jansz  Krol  and  his  Council,  and  sailed 
March  19,  1632,  in  the  ship  Eendragt  {Concord  or  Union). 

The  Governors  who  occupied  Bouwerie  No.  1  in  succession 
were: 

Peter  Minuit  May  4,  1626,  to  March  19,1632. 

Bastiaen  Jansz  Krol  March  19,  1632,  to  April  16,  1633. 
Wouter  Van  Twiller    April  16,  1633,  to  March  28,  1638. 

On  April  22,  1638,  Director  Kieft  leased,  to  Wouter  Van 
Twiller,  Company's  Bouwerie  No.  1.  It  is  therefore  improbable 
that  Director  Kieft  ever  occupied  the  Company's  farm  No.  1 
for  any  length  of  time;  especially  since  the  fort  had  been 
completed  in  1635  and  it  contained  the  Governor's  house 
within  its  walls. 

This  farm  was  purchased  by  Peter  Stuyvesant  in  1652. 


2— BOUWERIE— 16  39 

Bouwerie  No.  2  was  occupied  in  1626  by  Peter  Bijlvelt 
(Bijleveldt — Bylevelt)  who  was  one  of  Governor  Peter  Minuit's 
Council  of  five. 

Bylevelt  was  evidently  not  contented  with  this  farm,  for 
some  reason  or  other,  because  when  Wolfert  Gerrets  was 
recalled  to  Amsterdam  by  the  chartered  West  India  Company, 
on  July  20,  1632,  he  took  over  Bouwerie  No.  3,  "having  sold  to 
Kiliaen  Van  Rensselaer,  with  the  consent  of  the  Lords  Directors 
of  the  chartered  West  India  Company,"  the  animal  increase 
on  that  farm.  He  occupied  Bouwerie  No.  3  until  just  before 
his  recall,  April  27,  1634. 


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In  February,  1634,  ne  s°ld  to  Kiliaen  Van  Rensselaer  all 
his  farm  implements.  Van  Rensselaer  sent  Gerrit  de  Reux 
down  from  Castle  Island  to  manage  this  farm  in  February, 
1634,  and  de  Reux  is  mentioned  as  managing  this  farm  on 
April  27,  1634,  when  he  also  was  ordered  home. 


3—BOUWERIE—16  39 

Bouwerie  No.  3  was  occupied  prior  to  1630  by  Wolfert 
Gerritsz  from  Amersfoort;  occasionally  referred  to  as  Wolfert 
Gerritsz  "van  Couwenhoven,"  after  the  name  of  a  farm  about 
four  miles  northwest  of  Amersfoort,  in  the  province  of  Utrecht. 
He  was  engaged  by  Patroon  Van  Rensselaer  January  16, 1630, 
to  superintend  the  establishment  of  farms  and  to  purchase 
cattle.  He  was  to  serve  four  years,  April  to  November,  but 
at  his  request  was  released  July  20, 1632.  He  leased  farm  No.  6 
from  July,  1632,  till  June  16,  1636,  when  he  received  a  grant 
for  several  hundred  acres  of  land  at  Achtervelt,  now  Flatlands, 
L.  L,  shown  on  Vingboom  Map  as  Farm  36  near  the  Indian 
house  of  the  Keskackau  tribe.  Van  Rensselaer  wanted  him  to 
move  up  to  Castle  Island,  but  he  did  not  accept  the  invitation. 

Wolfert  Gerritsz  is  the  progenitor  of  the  Kouwenhoven 
and  Conover  families  in  America.  His  head  farmer  was 
Teunis  Dircksen  Poentee  Van  Vechten. 

Bouwerie  No.  3  was  occupied  by  Peter  Bylevelt  from 
July  20,  1632,  till  February,  1634,  and  on  May  18,  1639,  it  was 
leased  to  Leendert  Arentsen  de  Grauw  by  Director  Kieft. 
It  is  one  of  the  Bouweries  mentioned  by  Vingboom  as  being 
vacant  at  the  time  the  map  was  drawn. 

Wouter  Van  Twiller  evidently  operated  this  bouwerie  in 
the  period  between  1634-1639  {Calendar  of  Historical  Manu- 
scripts.  Part  I,  page  6). 


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4—  BOUWERIE—16 39 

Bouwerie  No.  4  was  occupied  by  Gerrit  Theusz  de  Reux 
(de  Reus)  or  Jehan  Ydes  in  1626.  The  former  was  engaged 
by  Kiliaen  Van  Rensselaer  as  a  farmer,  primarily  to  establish 
a  farm  on  Blommaerts  Kill  on  June  15,  1632,  and  sailed  with 
four  laborers  in  den  Soutbergh  (Salt  Mountain.)  When  at 
Manhattan  he  became  associated  with  Jehan  Ydes  and  upon 
his  arrival  at  Rensselaerswyck  was  appointed  Schepen  and 
presented  with  a  black  hat  with  silver  band  July  20,  1632,  by 
Van  Rensselaer.  During  his  absence  from  Manhattan  the 
bouwerie  was  managed  by  Jehan  Ydes.  On  account  of  dis- 
agreement in  transferring  and  sale  of  some  cattle,  Gerrit  de 
Reux  was  ordered  home  on  April  27,  1634,  before  the  expiration 
of  his  employment.  He  transferred  all  his  cattle  to  Van 
Rensselaer  who  assumed  his  obligations  to  the  Company 
for  the  bouwerie:  he  having  paid  the  first  installment  of  one 
hundred  guilders  and  first  year's  rent  only.  In  June,  1632, 
he  appears  to  have  been  established  on  a  complete  farm  and  a 
suitable  house  on  Blommaerts  Kill  on  an  island  called  "de 
Laets"  island  near  Albany. 

In  February,  1634,  he  is  back  on  Manhattan,  occupying 
Bouwerie  No.  2,  to  take  charge  of  the  farm  sold  by  Bijlevelt 
to  Van  Rensselaer.  He  was  ordered  home  April  27,  1634, 
by  the  chartered  West  India  Company  and  died  August  4, 
1639. 

5—  BOUWERIE— 16  39 

Bouwerie  No.  5  was  occupied  by  Jacob  Walich  Van  Winkle 
and  Claes  Cornelissen  Switz,  in  1624. 

Jacob  Walich  (Walings,  Walingen,  Walingsen)  was  a 
resident  of  Hoorn,  the  family  originally  coming  from  Winkel 
in  North  Holland,  a  village  located  about  fifteen  miles  north- 


1624-1639 


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west  of  Hoorn  on  the  Zuyder  Zee.  He  occupied  Bouwerie 
No.  5  from  1624  to  1636.  He  went  to  Rensselaerswyck  in 
1642  and  remained  there  until  1650  when,  on  October  1st  of 
that  year,  he  returned  to  Manhattan.  It  is  in  this  period 
between  the  occupation  of  Bouwerie  No.  5  in  1636  and  his 
arrival  at  Rensselaerswyck  in  1642  he  is  supposed  to  have 
lived  on  the  plantation  No.  14  which  was  called  "  Walenstyne" 
(House  of  Waling).  He  obtained  a  patent  for  land  in  Pavonia 
near  Communipaw,  October  23,  1654.  In  tne  fall  of  1641  he 
was  appointed  one  of  the  "twelve  men,"  the  advisory  board  to 
Governor  Kieft.  Jacob  Walich  made  a  trip  to  Holland  in 
1633  in  the  ship  den  Soutbergh  to  stock  his  farm,  and  while 
absent  the  farm  was  managed  by  Claes  Cornelissen  Switz. 
Switz  was  a  wheelwright  by  trade.  He  combined  with  one 
Jacob  Wolfersen  Van  Couwenhoven  to  bring  over  cattle  to 
the  Colony,  the  undertaking  being  financed  by  Kiliaen  Van 
Rensselaer.  Claes  Cornelissen  Switz  became  involved  over 
the  sale  of  land  with  Adrian  Petersen.  On  January  24, 
1639,  he  leased  Bouwerie  No.  18  (Vingboom  calls  it  a  farm) 
previously  occupied  by  Jacobus  Van  Curler  opposite  Johan 
la  Montagne's  bouwerie  called  "  Vredendael"  on  the  northern 
part  of  the  Island  of  Manhattan.  On  December  13,  1645, 
Switz's  son  (Cornelius  Claeson  Swits)  received  a  patent  for 
this  bouwerie  from  the  chartered  West  India  Company, 
containing  twenty-five  morgens,  two  hundred  and  ninety-six 
rods,  of  land.  He  was  murdered  by  the  Indians  in  September, 
1655,  like  his  father  before  him  in  1641,  and  his  wife,  unable 
to  continue  the  payments,  gave  up  the  farm. 

Bouwerie  No.  5  was  in  1642  occupied  by  Dr.  Pieter  Vande 
Linde,  whose  farm  extends  on  the  north  to  that  which  is 
occupied  by  Hendrick  Hendricksen  Kip,  45,  the  tailor.  Dr. 
Vande  Linde  was  a  surgeon  who  came  in  the  ship  Love  in  1638. 
He  was  at  various  times  inspector  of  tobacco,  schoolmaster, 
and  clerk  of  the  church. 


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On  March  I,  1642,  Abraham  Pietersen  sold  the  grain  on 
this  farm  as  well  as  that  raised  on  Bouwerie  No.  6  to  Jacob 
Barens. 

In  1653  William  Beekman  occupied  this  bouwerie. 


6— BOUWERIE— 1639 

This  is  the  Geurdt  Van  Gelder  farm.  The  records  fail  to 
show  anything  about  the  occupant  of  this  farm.  There  ap- 
pear to  be  many  records  of  Van  Gelders  subsequent  to  1660 
but  it  is  not  known  whether  or  not  Geurdt  Van  Gelder  re- 
turned to  Gelderland.  It  has  been  advanced  that  Gerrit 
de  Reus  was  from  Gelderland;  therefore  he  might  be  known 
as  Gerrit  or  Geurdt  Van  Gelder.  The  author  has  little 
faith,  however,  in  this  theory  because  there  is  a  single 
record  of  both  men  occupying  different  bouweries  at  the  same 
time. 

Cousin  Notelman  mentioned  in  the  Van  Rensselaer 
Manuscript  (Coenraet  Notelman)  was,  in  1630,  placed  in 
charge  of  this  bouwerie  and  probably  continued  to  operate 
it  in  the  interests  of  Van  Rensselaer  until  July,  1632. 

Wolphert  Gerritsen  Van  Couwenhoven  operated  this  farm 
from  July,  1632,  till  July,  1638,  at  which  time  it  was  leased  by 
Abraham  Pietersen  Gorter,  who  is  claimed  to  be  progenitor 
of  the  Van  Deursen  family  by  Captain  Albert  H.  Van  Deusen, 
the  author  of  the  Van  Deursen  Family  Record.  Although 
this  Bouwerie  is  mentioned  by  Vingboom  as  being  unoccupied 
in  1639,  it  was  leased  in  November  of  that  year  by  Abraham 
Pietersen  Gorter  from  Director  Kieft. 

Cornelius  Jacobsen  Stille  (Wortendyke)  occupied  this 
bouwerie  at  a  later  date,  he  having  previously  occupied 
Plantation  No.  14  till  about  1638. 


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This  farm  is  said  to  have  been  leased  by  Jan  Corneliszen 
Van  Vorst,  1639-1642.  He  was  the  son  of  Cornelius  Van  Vorst, 
the  first  Schout  of  Pavonia. 


7— PLANTATION  OF  TOMES  SANDERS— 1639 

Bouwerie  No.  7  was  occupied  in  1630  by  Evert  Focken  and 
Rutger  Hendrixsen  Van  Soest.  Early  in  January,  1630,  Focken 
died.  On  January  16,  1630,  the  farm  was  declared  unfit  for 
cultivation.  Van  Rensselaer  took  over  the  farm,  assuming 
Focken's  contract  of  purchase  with  the  chartered  West  India 
Company,  and  sent  Rutger  Hendrixsen  to  manage  the  farm. 
This  he  operated  until  July  20,  1632,  when  he  went  to 
Rensselaers  Burg  on  Castle  Island.  He  left  the  Colony  in 
1634. 

Rutger  Hendrixsen  came  from  Soest,  a  village  in 
the  province  of  Utrecht,  four  miles  northwest  of  Amers- 
foort  and  ten  miles  southeast  of  Naarden.  He  was  ap- 
pointed first  Schout.  Van  Rensselaer  presented  him  with 
a  "silver  plated  rapier  with  baldric  and  a  black  hat  with 
a  plume,"  insignia  of  his  office.  He  was  accredited  as  be- 
ing a  very  fine  farmer,  for  Van  Rensselaer  says  that  he 
"acquitted  himself  well  and  has  a  fine  farm  with  good  farm 
house." 

In  1639  this  Bouwerie  No.  7  was  occupied  by  Thomas 
(Tomes)  Sanders,  the  blacksmith,  and  operated  as  a  planta- 
tion. Thomas  Saunders  came  from  Amsterdam.  He  ob- 
tained permission  to  settle  in  the  "byeenwooninge"  (Village  of) 
van  Rensselaerswyck  on  July  13,  1650.  This  Bouwerie  No.  7 
was  called  "Mallesmits  berch"  (crazy  Smith's  hill),  which  was 
just  north  of  "Smith's  Valley"  or  "The  Swamp,"  sometimes 
called  "The  Salt  Meadow." 


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8— PLANTATION  OF  OLD  JAN— 1639 

Bouwerie  No.  8  was  occupied  by  Jan  Lampo  and  Cornelius 
Van  Voorst  prior  to  1627.  Cornelius  Van  Voorst  went  over 
to  Pavonia  prior  to  1632. 

Jan  Lampo  was  the  first  sheriff  of  New  Netherland  (Schout- 
Fiscal),  a  sort  of  attorney-general.  He  returned  home  with 
Minuit  in  the  ship  Eendragt  {Concord  or  Union)  March  19, 
1632.  He  came  from  Cantelburg.  He  occupied  this  farm 
about  six  years,  three  years  of  which  Governor  Minuit's 
secretary,  de  Rasieres,  lived  with  him. 

In  1639  this  bouwerie  was  occupied  by  old  Jan  (John 
Seals).  On  Vingboom's  Map  there  does  not  appear  to  be 
any  house  located  at  8.  The  farm  of  old  Jan  is  supposed 
to  be  north  of  the  farm  of  Anneke  Jans,  which  is  num- 
bered 21.  Old  Jan's  farm  was  north  of  what  is  now  Canal 
Street. 


9— PLANTATION  OF  JAN  PIE TERSZ — 1639 

This  was  Jan  Pietersen  Slot  who  came  to  this  country 
with  Nicholas  De  Meyer  by  way  of  Amsterdam  from 
Holstein.  This  bouwerie  is  described  as  being  of  eight 
morgens  (sixteen  acres)  of  land  situated  opposite  to  Bou- 
werie No.  5.  He  later  operated  a  farm  in  Harlem  near 
Van  Keulen's  Hoeck.  He  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Slott  or 
Sloat  family  of  Orange  and  Rockland  Counties  and  the 
Ramapo  Valley.  In  1660  he  appears  as  senior  member  of 
the  Board  of  Commissaries,  the  duties  of  Schout  devolving 
upon  him.  Later  he  became  chief  magistrate.  In  1662  he 
is  listed  as  the  owner  of  Van  Keulen  Hook  lots  numbered  7, 
8,  and  9. 


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io— PLANTATION  OF  TWILLER—1639 

This  was  a  tobacco  plantation  of  Wouter  Van  Twiller, 
who  operated  it,  in  all  probability,  immediately  upon  his 
arrival  on  Manhattan  in  April,  1633.  His  farm  house  is 
supposed  to  be  the  first  house  erected  north  of  Canal  Street. 
This  was  known  as  the  Sappokanikan  Bouwerie  and  later 
as  the  Bossen  Bouwerie.  It  was  the  beginning  of  the  now 
famous  Greenwich  Village. 

This  bouwerie  was  leased  on  December  18,  1646,  to  Geurt 
Coerten  and  Wouter  Aertsen. 


11— PLANTATION  OF  BO  ERE  BAECKER—1639 

This  is  undoubtedly  meant  for  Edward  Fiscock.  See 
comment  under  Brewery  No.  16.  This  bouwerie  is  described 
on  February  19,  1639,  as  a  farm  on  the  North  River,  near  the 
plantation  heretofore  possessed  by  Tonis  Nysen  in  a  deed  to 
Maryn  Adriaensen. 


12— PLANTATION  OF  MR.  LESLE  DE  NEVE 
SI  NX— 1639 

Mr.  Lesle  de  Neve  Sinx  leased  one-half  of  this  plantation 
on  December  17,  1638,  from  Edward  Wilson,  his  name  being 
given  as  Francis  Lastley. 

13— PLANTATION  OF  THOMAS  BETS— 1639 

Tomas  Bets  (Bescher)  acquired  an  interest  in  this  bouw- 
erie located  where  Greenwich  Village  now  stands,  because  of 


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holding  a  mortgage  of  Oloff  Stevensen  Van  Cortlandt  who 
settled  here  in  1637.  Bescher  occupied  the  farm  for  some 
time.  He  was  an  Englishman  and  is  said  to  have  succumbed 
in  1639-1640  to  twofold  misfortunes  of  an  encumbered  farm 
and  a  worthless  wife.  On  November  20,  1639,  he  leased  this 
plantation  to  Abraham  Newman  and  Pieter  Breyle,  and 
later  to  John  Wood.  Van  Cortlandt  on  the  other  hand  married 
Anneken,  a  sister  of  Govert  Loockermans;  received  an  im- 
portant appointment  from  Governor  Kieft  as  keeper  of 
the  public  stores,  and  straightforward  made  rapid  advance- 
ments, becoming  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  New 
Amsterdam. 

Bescher  died  prior  to  April  27,  1641. 


14— PLANTATION  OF  JAN  VAN  ROTTERDAM— 1639 

On  May  14,  1639,  Barent  Dircksen  (Van  Naarden),  a 
baker,  leased  to  Gerrit  Jansen  and  Volckert  Evertsen  the 
plantation  called  "Walenstyne"  formerly  occupied  by  Cor- 
nelius Jacobsen  (Stille)  of  Mertensdyk,  and  located  north 
of  Mr.  Lesley's  bouwerie  on  the  North  River.  Gerrit  Jansen 
was  the  son  of  Jan  Van  Rotterdam.  Cornelius  Jacobsen 
Stille  was  from  St.  Maartensdijk,  a  village  in  the  Province 
of  Zeeland,  six  miles  northwest  of  Tholen,  nine  miles  south- 
east of  Zierikzee,  and  is  the  progenitor  of  the  Wortendyke 
family  in  America. 

It  has  been  suggested  that  "Walenstyne"  is  a  corruption 
of  " Walingstein"  ("House  of  Waling")  and  that  Jacob 
Walich  (Waling)  Van  Winkel  lived  here  after  his  having 
occupied  Bouwerie  No.  5,  and  previous  to  his  going  to 
Rensselaerswyck. 


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15— PLANTATION  OF  HENDRICK  PIETERSZ—1639 

Hendrick  Pietersz  is  Hendrick  Pietersen  from  Wesel,  who 
occupied  Plantation  No.  15,  which  is  described  as  a  plantation 
near  "reed  valley"  in  a  deed  to  Adrian  Petersen,  dated 
February  3,  1640. 


16— BREWERY  OF  BO  ERE  BACKER— 1639 

O'Callaghan's  Calendar  of  Historical  Manuscripts,  Part 
I,  page  8,  says  that  on  May  18,  1639,  certain  farms  come  in 
order  from  South  to  North.  These  farms  were  Mr.  Lestley's, 
Gerrit  Jansen's,  and  Fiscock's.  According  to  the  map,  16  is 
therefore  the  farm  and  brewery  of  Fiscock. 

Edward  Fiscock  was  an  Englishman  and  was  a  "farmer" 
(boere)  and  a  "baker"  (backer)  by  trade.  He  occupied 
Bouwerie  No.  16  with  Hans  Hansen  (Bergen)  and  Maryn 
Adriaensen,  all  of  whom  transferred  the  property  on  November 
20,  1642,  to  Thomas  Hall.  This  plantation  is  described  as 
being  adjacent  to  the  plantation  of  Wouter  Van  Twiller,  but  on 
the  map  there  is  considerable  distance  between  farms  10  and  16. 


17— PLANTATION  OF  JACOB  COLLAAR—1639 

Jacob  Collaar  is  Jacobus  Van  Corlaer  (Van  Curler),  who 
occupied  this  plantation  on  May  18,  1638,  coming  from  farm 
No.  18  which  he  previously  occupied.  This  plantation  was 
called  Nechtans  and  known  at  the  present  time  as  Corlaers 
Hoeck.  On  September  28,  1640,  he  leased  the  same  to  William 
Hendriesen  and  Gysbert  Cornelissen.  There  appear  to  be 
two  houses  on  this  plantation. 


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Jacobus  Van  Curler  took  active  part  in  the  settlement  of 
New  Utrecht,  where  he  built  one  of  the  first  houses  and  was  the 
town  clerk  and  magistrate. 

Jacobus  Van  Corlaer  came  from  Nykerk.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Commander  of  the  fort  on  the  Connecticut  River 
by  Wouter  Van  Twiller. 

On  June  16,  1636,  Jacobus  Van  Corlaer  (Curler)  received 
a  patent  for  a  tract  of  land  on  Long  Island  which  is  not 
indicated  on  the  Vingboom  map  as  it  evidently  was  not  worked 
at  that  time  (1639). 


18— FARM  OF  CORN E LIS  VAN  THIENHOVEN—1639 

There  are  two  farms  on  the  map  bearing  this  number. 
The  data  refers  to  the  northernmost  one.  This  farm  was 
owned  by  Cornelius  Van  Thienhoven  at  the  time  the  map 
was  made.  On  May  18,  1638,  this  was  known  as  the  Otter- 
spoor  farm  and  was  leased  by  Jonkheer  Jacobus  Van  Curler. 
The  rent  was  paid  in  produce  and  "the  land,  when  vacated, 
to  be  left  well  sowed."  Cornelius  Van  Tienhoven  purchased 
this  farm  in  the  fall  of  1638  at  the  request  and  on  behalf  of 
Coenraet  Van  Keulen,  a  merchant  residing  in  Amsterdam, 
for  the  sum  of  2900  gl.  ($1160.00).  Van  Keulen  made  Kieft 
his  agent  to  manage  the  farm.  On  January  25,  1639,  Van 
Tienhoven  gave  a  new  lease  to  Claes  Corneliszen  Swits  who 
had  previously  been  associated  with  Jacob  Walich  Van  Winkel 
in  the  operation  of  Bouwerie  No.  5  on  the  lower  end  of  Man- 
hattan. Two  years  later  Swits  was  murdered  by  an  Indian 
at  Deutel  (Turtle)  Bay  on  the  East  River,  in  the  neighborhood 
of  the  present  Twenty-fourth  Street.  Bouwerie  No.  1  ex- 
tended to  Deutel  Kill,  which  emptied  into  the  Bay  and  is 
plainly  indicated  on  the  map.  On  August  22, 1639,  Van  Keulen 


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received  title  to  Bouwerie  18.  This  was  subsequently  called 
Van  Keulen's  Hook. 

Van  Tienhoven  owned  several  pieces  of  land  in  lower 
Manhattan  and  a  farm  lying  between  Maiden  Lane  and  Ann 
Street. 

On  December  6,  1642,  Kieft  as  agent  for  Van  Keulen  con- 
tracted for  a  "fine  substantial  residence  on  Otter-Spoor,  size 
fifty  feet  by  one  hundred  feet,  with  porticos  front  and  rear 
and  all  very  complete." 


19— FARM  OF  WEN  ONTANGELE—1639 

Loen  Ontangele  (Dela  Montagne)  is  Dr.  Johannes  Mousnier 
de  La  Montagne  (Montanye),  husband  of  Rachel  de  Forest, 
daughter  of  Jesse  de  Forest. 

This  bouwerie  was  originally  called  Muscoota  and  was 
chosen  by  Henry  de  Forest  in  April,  1637,  who  obtained  a 
grant  from  Wouter  Van  Twiller.  This  bouwerie  was  originally 
of  "one  hundred  morgens  of  land"  (about  two  hundred  acres), 
on  a  plain  extending  "between  the  hills  and  the  kill" — what 
is  now  Morningside  Heights  to  Harlem  Creek,  which  rose  not 
far  from  the  present  Mount  Morris  Park  and  ran  in  a  south- 
easterly and  easterly  direction  until  it  emptied  into  the 
Harlem  River.  The  northern  boundary  was  at  124th  Street, 
while  on  the  south  were  the  hills  at  109th  Street.  (See  A 
Walloon  Family  in  America,  page  82,  for  further  description.) 
Henry  de  Forest  died  on  July  26,  1637,  and  Dr.  La  Montagne 
completed  the  buildings  started  by  Henry  de  Forest.  As  de 
Forest  was  childless  his  estate  fell  to  his  widow.  Montagne 
took  care  of  the  plantation.  Andries  Hudde,  an  ex-member 
of  Van  Twiller's  Council,  married  widow  de  Forest  and  went 
to  Holland.    He  secured  a  patent  to  this  farm  in  July,  1638, 


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and  engaged  Hans  Hansen,  from  Bergen,  in  Norway  to  farm 
his  shares.  On  October  28,  1638,  Dr.  Montagne  purchased  at 
auction  a  portion  of  this  plantation,  and  on  May  9,  1647, 
received  a  patent  from  Kieft  for  the  balance  of  Vredendal,  to 
which  was  now  joined  what  was  not  included  in  the  original 
grant  to  Henry  de  Forest,  namely  the  point  or  neck  of  land 
called  Rechawanes  (The  Great  Sands).  This  addition  was 
granted  to  La  Montagne  so  that  he  might  have  some  salt 
meadow  and  an  outlet  on  the  river.  The  projection  was  called 
Montanye's  Point.  This  bouwerie  was  called  Vredendal  or 
Quiet  or  Peaceful  Dale,  although  its  history  for  many  subse- 
quent years  was  anything  but  peaceful.  There  was  a  spring 
on  this  farm  known  as  Montanye's  Fonteyn. 


20— FARM  OF  TWILLER—1639 

Van  Twiller  plantation  on  Great  Barents  or  Wards  Island. 
He  purchased  the  Indian  title  to  this  island;  also  the  lesser 
one  "lying  westward"  called  Minnahanonck  (Blackwells 
Island)  from  the  Sachems,  Heyseys  and  Numers.  He  erected 
a  dwelling  house  and  outbuildings  and  procured  all  things 
necessary  for  a  well  regulated  plantation,  with  a  "boat  and 
fixtures"  for  passing  to  and  from  New  Amsterdam.  This 
island  is  described  as  being  opposite  the  Otter-spoor  farm  of 
Van  Tienhoven.  This  plantation  was  in  charge  of  Barent 
Jansen  Blom,  a  Dane,  who  owned  a  plantation  at  Paulis 
Hook  in  1642,  although  he  is  supposed  to  have  lived  and  died 
in  Wallabout.  He  came  from  Ockholm,  Province  of  Sleswick, 
in  Denmark. 

It  should  be  noted  that  Blackwells  Island  is  opposite  the 
"Quarters  set  aside  for  The  Blacks,  the  Company's  slaves." 
Van  Twiller's  title  to  the  Island  under  his  Indian  purchase 


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was  disallowed  by  the  Company  and  annulled  by  Director 
Pieter  Stuyvesant  and  his  Council  on  July  1,  1652.  It  fell  to 
the  English  by  the  general  act  of  confiscation  of  October  10, 
1665,  and  was  soon  afterwards  sold  to  Captain  Delavall,  August 
14,  1667,  although  his  patent  did  not  issue  till  February  3,  1668. 

Blackwells  Island  was  transferred  by  patent  to  Captain 
Francis  (Francoys)  Fyn  together  with  one  hundred  acres  on 
Long  Island  in  that  part  of  Newtown  called  Ravenswood. 
John  Manning  owned  it  and  his  daughter  married  Robert 
Blackwell,  inherited  it,  and  the  island  subsequently  succeeded 
to  the  Blackwell  estate  from  whence  it  is  supposed  to  have 
received  its  name. 


21— FARM  OF  SEN  I  KAN  T — 1639 

Senikant  is  undoubtedly  a  mistake  of  Vingboom  and  is 
evidently  meant  for  PREDIKANT,  meaning  preacher.  This 
is,  however,  the  famous  farm  of  Anneke  Jans,  who  married 
Domine  Bogardus,  the  Predikant,  in  March  or  April,  1638. 
This  farm  extended  along  the  North  River  from  what  is  now 
Warren  Street  on  the  south,  to  Canal  Street  on  the  north; 
on  the  east  was  Kalck-Hook.  This  is  part  of  the  famous 
grant  which  Queen  Anne  made  over  to  Trinity  Church  so 
long  in  litigation  in  our  courts. 


22— FARM  OF  ANTHONY  THE  TURCK—1639 

Anthony  Jansen  Van  Salee,  called  the  Turk,  occupied  this 
bouwerie  prior  to  1639.  He  and  his  wife  were  banished  on 
April  7,  1639,  from  New  Amsterdam  on  account  of  their 
being  disturbers  of  the  peace,  and  he  was  given,  on  August 
1,  1639,  one  hundred  morgens  (two  hundred  acres)  of  land  on  a 


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bay  in  the  North  River  on  Long  Island  over  against  CONYNE 
EYLANT  extending  along  the  shore  some  two  hundred  and 
fifty-three  rods. 


23— FARM  OF  JAN  CLAESEN—1639 

Jan  Claesen  of  Coedyck  occupied  this  farm  prior  to  1639. 
He  married  Lysbeth  Jans.  Jan  Claesen  died  prior  to  December, 
1666,  in  as  much  as  his  widow  married  Auche  Janse  (Auche 
Jansen  Van  Nuyse)  in  that  month. 


24— PLANTATION  OF  DAVIT  THE  PROVOOST—1639 

Davit  "the"  Provoost  occupied  this  bouwerie  prior  to 
1639.  Provoost  was  thought  to  be  a  family  name  but  Ving- 
boom  clearly  emphasizes  "the"  before  the  name,  showing 
that  Davit  was  "  the  Provoost "  of  the  garrison.  The  Provoost, 
(Provost)  family  in  America,  however,  are  the  descendants  of 
this  Davit.  On  February  2,  1652,  he  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  "Nine  Men,"  and  in  April,  1642,  was  appointed  Com- 
mander of  Fort  Hope  on  the  Connecticut  River  and  became 
one  of  the  most  important  men  in  the  Colony. 


25— PLANTATION  OF  HENDRIC  THE  TAILOR— 1639 

Hendric  (Jansen)  the  Tailor  occupied  this  plantation  and 
brewery  in  1639,  ana"  on  August  26,  1641,  he  transferred  by  deed 
to  Maryn  Adriaensen,  the  house,  barn,  and  arable  land,  except 
the  brew  house  and  kettles  therein.  Adriaensen  transferred 
the  land  only  to  Jan  Damen,  and  it  is  described  as  being 


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in  Smith's  Valley  (Salt  Meadow,  sometimes  called  "The 
Swamp").  Hendric  Jansen  transferred  the  balance  with 
the  brewery  to  William  Adriaensen  the  Cooper  on  November 
24, 1642. 

26— PLANTATION  OF  TYMEN  JANSZ—1639 

Tymen  Jansz  (Jansen)  was  one  of  the  guardians  of  children 
of  Cornelis  Van  Vorst.  He  was  a  ship  carpenter  by  trade  and 
occupied  this  bouwerie  prior  to  1639. 

In  1642  Jansen  secured  a  patent  for  land  on  the  east  side 
of  Mespachtes  Kill  behind  Domine's  Hook  (Newtown,  L.  I.) 
and,  on  July  3,  1643,  secured  a  patent  for  six  hundred  and 
forty-six  rods,  ten  feet,  and  five  inches  of  land  on  Manhattan. 
He  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Valentine  family.  {The  Holland 
Society  Year  Book,  1913,  page  49,  entry  357.) 


27— FARM  OF  VAN  VORST— 1639 

Cornelius  Van  Vorst  was  settled  at  Ahasimus  as  superin- 
tendent of  the  Colony  as  early  as  May,  1632.  For  further 
details  see  the  1914  Year  Book  of  The  Holland  Society  of  New 
York.  He  died  early  in  the  spring  of  1639.  His  house  was 
burned  to  the  ground  on  June  25,  1636,  and  was  rebuilt.  It 
was  considered  a  fireproof  house  in  those  days.  This  family 
was  the  first  known  family  to  have  permanently  settled  in 
New  Jersey. 

28— V  1639 

This  is  without  doubt  Hendrick  Cornelissen  Van  Vorst's 
farm  at  Hoboken.    He  re-rented  this  farm  from  the  Company 


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on  March  12,  1639,  which  he  probably  occupied  shortly  after 
1630.    Hendrick  died  a  bachelor. 

This  bouwerie  was  leased  by  Director  Kieft,  after  Hen- 
drick's  death,  on  February  15,  1640,  to  Aert  Teunissen  Van 
Putten,  who  was  murdered  in  the  Indian  War  of  1643  while 
most  of  his  farm  and  cattle  were  destroyed. 


29— FARM  OF  JAN  EVERTS— 1639 

Jan  Everts  Bout's  plantation  at  Communipaw  in  1634. 
He  arrived  in  New  Netherland  June  17,  1634,  and  was  com- 
missioned by  Pauw  to  be  one  of  his  superintendents.  His 
house  was  destroyed  by  the  Indians  in  1643.  On  June  20, 
1640,  he  received  from  the  Dutch  West  India  Company  three 
milch  cows  as  his  share  of  the  distribution  of  the  cattle.  He 
subsequently  acquired  property  in  Brooklyn  where  he  went  to 
live  and  became  one  of  the  most  important  settlers  there. 
After  leaving  Communipaw  he  sold  part  of  his  farm  to 
Michael  Jansen  Vreeland,  and  the  rest  to  Claes  Pietersen 
Cos. 


30— PLANTATION  ON  THE  LAETER  HOECK—1639 

Jan  de  Lacher's  or  Jande  Lachers  (Laughing  John)  Hoeck 
is  a  tongue  of  land  just  south  of  Communipaw  or  Mill 
Creek. 

This  plantation  was  occupied  by  Egbert  Wautersen 
(Watterson),  1640,  for  on  June  20th  of  that  year  he  received 
as  his  share  of  the  general  distribution  of  animals  imported 
by  the  Dutch  West  India  Company  three  milch  cows,  three 
mares. 


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31— THREE  PLANTATIONS  AT  POUELES 
HOECK—1639 

Abram  Isaacsen  Plank  or  Verplank  purchased  on  May 
1,  1638,  from  the  chartered  West  India  Company,  Poules 
Hoeck,  and  on  October  21,  1638,  Plank  leased  to  Claes  Jansen 
Van  Purmerent,  the  ancestor  of  the  Cooper  (Kuyper)  family, 
one  morgen  for  a  tobacco  plantation;  on  the  same  day  Garrit 
Dirksen  Blauw  leased  a  similar  property  from  Plank.  These 
two,  with  Plank,  were  occupying  the  three  houses  shown  on 
the  map  in  1639. 


32— PLANTATION  OF  MAERYENES—1639 

Maryn  Adriaensen  at  Weehawken.  On  May  11,  1647, 
he  received  one  hundred  acres  additional  at  "  Awiehaken" 
north  of  Hoboken.  He  was  a  hot-headed  man  and  threatened 
Governor  Kieft,  actually  firing  at  him  in  March,  1643,  when 
he  was  sent  to  Holland  in  "Irons."  He  evidently  was  ac- 
quitted or  only  served  a  short  sentence  for  he  returned  to 
New  Netherland. 


33— PLANTATION  OF  DAVIDT  PIETERS—1639 

Davidt  Pieters  de  Vries  of  Hoorn,  a  sea  captain,  Com- 
mander of  the  ship  King  David,  on  August  16,  1636,  requested 
Wouter  Van  Twiller  to  register  Staten  Island  for  him  as  he 
wished  to  plant  a  colony  upon  it,  which  was  done.  On 
January  5,  1639,  De  Vries  sent  his  people  to  Staten  Island  to 
begin  to  plant  a  colony  there  and  build. 


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On  August  20,  1641,  a  person  named  Melyn  claimed  that 
Staten  Island  belonged  to  him  as  he  received  it  from  Director 
Verhorst  (the  Lord  of  Nederhorst).  On  September  1,  1641, 
the  Raritan  Indians  killed  the  de  Vries'  settlers  on  Staten 
Island  and  thereby  de  Vries  lost  his  holdings. 

Davidt  de  Vries  was  a  patroon  of  New  Netherland  and  a 
member  of  the  "Twelve  Men,"  acting  as  their  president. 

This  plantation  is  located  where  New  Brighton  is  to-day. 


34—NOOTEN  ISLAND— 1639 

This  is  Governors  Island  on  which  was  a  plantation  of 
Wouter  Van  Twiller  in  1634.  This  island  was  called  by  the 
Indians  Pagganch  and  by  the  Dutch  Nooten  Eilant  or  Nut 
Island.  Van  Twiller  purchased  this  island  as  early  as  1634 
from  the  Indians  in  exchange  for  some  axe-heads,  a  string 
of  beads,  and  a  few  nails.  The  chartered  West  India  Com- 
pany repealed  that  grant,  and  on  January  12,  1648,  the 
Council  of  New  Netherland  passed  a  resolution  to  take  the 
saw  mill  at  Nooten  Island  to  pieces  if  possible,  if  not,  to  burn 
it  to  save  the  iron.  This  saw  mill  is  indicated  on  the  map 
at  D. 

After  the  English  occupation  it  became  known  as  Governors 
Island,  which  name  it  has  retained  until  the  present  time. 


35— PA  NNEBA  CKERY—16  39 

Pannebacker  operated  in  1639  two  houses  and  three 
plantations  on  Long  Island  near  Red  Hoeck,  which  is  shown 
on  the  map  as  being  an  island,  southeast  of  Governors  Island. 


1624-1639 


23 


In  1645  Pannebacker  obtained  a  bouwerie  adjoining  No. 
5  and  a  wagon  road  on  Manhattan.  A  pannebackery  is  a  tile 
kiln,  while  pannebacker  is  a  tile  manufacturer;  it  is  therefore 
probable  that  tiles  were  manufactured  at  35. 

36— TWO  PLANTATIONS  OF  WOLFERT 
GERITSZ—1639 

Two  plantations  and  two  farms  of  Wolfert  Geritsz  Van 
Couwenhoven  and  two  of  his  partner  Andries  Hudde.  These 
were  tobacco  plantations.  The  patent  was  granted  on  June 
16,  1636,  making  these  patentees  together  with  Jacobus  Van 
Curler  the  first  recorded  land  owners  on  Long  Island. 

Andrew  Hudde,  a  surveyor  by  occupation,  was  the  son 
of  Rutger  Hudde  of  Amsterdam  and  was  born  in  1608.  In 
1633  he  became  a  member  of  Van  Twiller's  Council. 

These  farms  were  called  Achterveld  meaning  rear  tract, 
and  later  "  Amersfoort,"  and  at  present  "Flatlands,"  a  part 
of  Brooklyn. 

37  y  38— PLANTATIONS  OF  GEGOERGESYN—1639 

Plantations,  four  in  number,  credited  by  Vingboom  as 
belonging  to  Gegoergesyn.  On  June  16,  1637,  Joris  Jansen 
obtained  a  patent  for  a  plantation  at  the  Wallabout,  shown  on 
Long  Island  at  37  and  38,  which  he  occupied  at  the  time  the 
map  was  made.  This  property  was  confirmed  to  him  by  a 
deed  from  Kakapeteyno  and  Pewichaas,  the  Indian  Chiefs, 
and  was  known  in  the  Indian  language  as  Rinnegachonck. 

This  was  Joris  Jansen  Rapalie  who  first  settled  in  Albany 
where  his  daughter,  Sara,  was  born  on  June  9,  1625,  "the 
first  christian  daughter  born  in  New  Netherland"  according 
to  her  declaration  made  on  April  4,  1656. 


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MANHATTAN 


He  was  one  of  the  board  of  "Twelve  Men"  representing 
the  New  Netherland  people. 


39— PLANTATION  OF  CLAES  NORMAN— 1639 

Claes  Carstensz  Norman's  plantation  on  Long  Island 
just  north  of  Wallabout. 

March  25,  1647,  he  received  a  Patent  for  fifty  morgens  of 
land  on  the  west  side  of  the  North  River  near  Dirck  the 
Paver's  land  and  kill. 

Claes  Carstensen  Norman  and  Dirck  Jansen  Dey  were 
the  first  known  settlers  of  Bayonne,  New  Jersey. 


40— FARM  OF  DIERYCK  THE  NORMAN— 1639 

Dieryck  the  Norman  was  Dirk  Volkersen  who  occupied 
house  and  lot  on  Manhattan  and  operated  a  plantation  on 
Long  Island  just  north  of  39,  but  it  is  not  shown  on  the  map. 
He  transferred  by  deed  his  Manhattan  house  in  "Smith's 
Valley,"  called  the  "Salt  Meadow"  and  "The  Swamp," 
facing  the  strand  or  highway,  in  1642,  to  Govert  Aertsen. 


41— FARM  OF  COSEYN—1639 

Cosyn  Gerritsen  Van  Putten  was  a  wheelwright  by  trade 
and  occupied  this  bouwerie  in  1639,  the  location  of  which  is 
not  indicated  on  the  map ;  but  on  March  13,  1647,  Cosyn  Gerrit- 
sen received  a  Patent  for  thirty-four  morgens  (sixty-eight  acres) 
of  land  adjoining  Twiller's  plantation  and  the  Sapokanikan 
wagon  road  on  Manhattan  in  the  Greenwich  Village  section. 


1624-1639 


25 


42— COMMENCED  FARM  OF  POELEN  PIETERSZ— 
1639 

Poelen  Pietersz  was  Captain  Jochem  Pieters  Kuyter.  This 
farm  was  known  as  Jochem  Pieters'  flats,  and  was  located  on 
the  south  side  of  the  Harlem  and  situated  between  Kingsbridge 
Road  and  Harlem  River.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  killed 
by  the  Indians. 

Just  to  the  southeast  of  this  plantation  is  one  of  Van 
Keulen's  which  extended  into  the  water  and  is  known  as  Van 
Keulen's  Hook. 

While  in  deeds  this  farm  was  known  as  "Jochem  Pieter- 
sen's  flats,"  in  the  gratitude  of  his  pious  heart  Kuyter  named 
it  Zeegendalox  the  "Vale  of  Blessing."  This,  it  will  be  noted, 
was  some  time  before  the  catastrophe  wiped  out  his  family. 

James  Riker  in  his  fine  History  of  Harlem  says  that  Isaac 
de  Forest  received  from  Peter  Stuyvesant  on  May  12,  1647, 
a  grant  "for  a  tract  between  Kuyter  and  Van  Keulen."  This 
is  the  location  of  the  unnumbered  house  between  18  and  42. 
Isaac  sold  this  bouwerie  to  William  Beekman  in  1650,  who 
re-sold  it  to  Cornelis  Claesen  Swits  (Suits)  in  1653.  Cornelis 
Claesen  Swits  is  a  son  of  Claes  Cornelis  Swits  who  formerly 
occupied  Bouwerie  No.  5  in  1630  and  Bouwerie  No.  18  in 
1639.  Bouwerie  No.  18  and  the  unnumbered  one  of  Isaac 
de  Forest  are  closely  situated  and  were  occupied  by  Father 
and  Son. 


43— COMMENCED  FARM  OF  JONAS  BRONCK—1639 

Jonas  Bronck's  plantation,  now  called  "Morrisania,"  was 
located  at  the  north  of  the  great  Kill  (now  the  Harlem  River) 
directly  opposite  Kuyter's  land,  42.  Jonas  Bronck  came  from 
Denmark,  probably  Copenhagen,  in  July,  1639,  and  at  once 


26 


MANHATTAN 


started  to  erect  a  stone  house,  covered  with  dutch  tiles,  a  barn, 
tobacco  houses,  and  barracks.  The  famous  treaty  with  the 
Indians,  known  as  the  Bronx  Treaty,  was  signed  on  April 
22,  1645,  in  this  house.  Bronxville  and  the  Borough  of  the 
Bronx  are  named  after  the  famous  owner. 


44— PLANTATION  OF  PIETER  SCHORSTINVEGER— 
1639 

This  bouwerie  is  described  as  being  north  of  the  Bronx 
farm,  separated  from  it  by  the  Kill  Mannepus  (Cromwell's 
Creek);  it  was  a  hilly  tract  called  Kaxkeek,  and  said  to  be 
"  lying  over  against  the  flats  of  the  Island  of  Manhatus,  extend- 
ing along  the  kill."  This  is  the  beginning  of  Westchester 
County. 

On  August  3,  1639,  the  farm  was  purchased  for  the  Com- 
pany and  was  operated  by  Pieter  Schorstinveger,  who  was  a 
chimney  sweep  by  occupation. 


45— PLANTATION  OF  THE  TAILOR— 1639 

This  was  probably  Hendrick  Hendriksen  Kip  who  occupied 
this  farm  in  1639. 

On  August  29,  165 1,  this  property  was  transferred  by  deed 
to  Albert  Andriessen  and  is  said  to  be  north  of  the  planta- 
tion of  Dr.  Pieter  Vande  Linde.  The  farm  south  is  Bouwerie 
No.  5. 

On  September  25,  1647,  he  was  appointed  on  the  board 
of  "Nine  Men,"  and  in  1656  a  Schepen.  He  is  the  progenitor 
of  the  Kip  family. 


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27 


TOT  BESLUIT: 

This  map  does  not  locate  all  the  farms  which  were  in 
operation  in  1639,  as  will  be  readily  seen  by  a  careful  reference 
to  the  record  of  deeds  and  leases  in  O'Callaghan's  Calendar  of 
Historical  Manuscripts,  Part  I,  and  the  Colonial  Documents  of 
New  York,  nor  does  it  locate  the  Company's  stores  on  Winkel 
Straat,  nor  the  Church  built  in  1633  and  used  till  1642,  which 
was  built  before  the  Church  in  the  fort.  The  horse-mill 
which  was  outside  the  fort,  located  in  the  rear  of  what  is  now 
Nos.  20-28  South  William  Street,  the  loft  of  which  was  used 
as  the  first  place  of  worship,  is  also  omitted.  It  should  be 
noted  that  this  Church  was  the  first  fully  organized  Reformed, 
or  Protestant  Dutch,  Church  in  America  and  was  begun  on 
Manhattan  in  1626.  The  mill  in  which  these  services  were 
held  was  built  by  Francois  Molemaecker  in  1626.  The  map 
is  therefore  not  complete,  but  gives  a  good  idea  of  the 
topography  and  the  relative  locations  of  the  principal  farms. 
It  is,  however,  the  most  complete  early  map  of  Manhattan  in 
existence,  prior  to  1650. 

The  Indian  houses  indicated  by  Vingboom  on  Long  Island 
and  referred  to  by  him  as  "Dit  fatsoen  Huysen  Bewonen  de 
Wilden  Keskachane"  appears  also  on  the  so-called  Costello 
map  as  "Dit  fatsoen  van  Huysen  Bewonen  de  wilden  Keska- 
chane," and  is  translated  This  style  of  houses  occupied  by 
savages.  Mr.  A.  J.  F.  van  Laer,  Chief  Archivist  of  the  State 
of  New  York,  translates  it  as  "The  shape,  or  style,  of  houses 
the  Indians  Keskachane  inhabit  or  dwell  in." 

Fort  Amsterdam  is  diagrammatically  shown  at  A  with  its 
four  bastions.  The  fort  was  built  by  Kryn  Frederickse.  It 
was  laid  out  after  the  approved  style  of  the  day  in  1628  and 
completed  in  1635.  The  walls  were  constructed  of  brick  work 
on  the  inside  and  battered  earth  on  the  outside  covered  with  sod. 
Inside  the  wall  was  the  Governor's  house  built  of  stone,  like- 


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MANHA TTAN 


wise  the  Church  with  its  steep  double-gabled  roof  and  low 
belfry,  the  council  chamber  with  the  government  offices,  and 
the  barracks  for  the  soldiers.  A  tall  flagstaff  with  the  orange, 
white,  and  blue  flag  at  the  top  was  also  inside — ORANJE 
BOVEN.  In  1787  the  fort  was  demolished  to  make  room  for 
the  old  government  house.  The  Holland  Society  of  New  York 
erected  a  tablet  on  the  spot  in  1890.  The  tablet  now  reposes 
on  an  inner  wall  of  the  United  States  Custom  House. 

The  grain  mill  is  shown  outside  the  fort  at  B.  This  was 
the  Company's  grist  mill  located  on  a  small  knoll  outside  the 
fort.  Just  south  of  this  was  the  Company's  saw  mill,  finished 
on  August  11,  1628,  which  is  located  at  C.  Its  large  sails 
reminded  the  inhabitants  of  their  picturesque  fatherland. 

There  was  another  saw  mill  owned  by  Van  Twiller  and 
located  on  Nooten  Eylant  (Governors  Island).  This  mill 
was  demolished  in  1648  and  the  iron  work  moved  to  Man- 
hattan. 

The  blacks  were  segregated  from  the  whites  and  were 
housed  on  a  plantation  opposite  Blackwells  Island  at  a 
point  marked  F  on  the  map,  a  considerable  distance  from  the 
nearest  farm.  These  were  the  Company's  slaves  which  were 
sometimes  let  out  for  hire  to  the  inhabitants  for  heavy  work  in 
construction  of  buildings  or  operating  the  farms  or  planta- 
tions. The  Company  maintained  slaves  for  this  purpose 
as  early  as  1628. 

It  will  be  seen  that  on  the  Vingboom  Map  distinctions  are 
made  between  Plantations  and  Bouweries.  The  difference 
between  a  plantation  and  a  bouwerie  or  farm  was  that  on  a 
farm  everything  in  the  line  of  agriculture  was  raised,  while  on 
a  plantation  only  tobacco  or  indian  corn  was  cultivated,  pre- 
paratory to  turning  it  into  a  farm.  Plantations  were  usually 
small,  seldom  exceeding  five  acres  in  extent,  and  gradually 
were  developed  into  farms. 


INDEX 


OF 

MANHATTAN  1624-1639 


Achter  t'Col,  1 
Achtervelt,  6,  23 

Act  of  Confiscation,  The  English,  17 
Adriaensen,  Maryn,  11,  13,  18,  21 

William,  19 
Aertsen,  Govert,  24 

Wouter,  11 
Ahasimus,  19 
Albany, 6 
Amersfoort,  5,  23 
Amsterdam,  1,  2,  4,  9,  10 
Andriessen,  Albert,  26 
Ann  Street,  15 
Anthony  the  Turck,  17 
Awiehaken,  N.  J.,  21 
Barens,  Jacob,  8 
Bayonne,  N.  J.,  27 
Beekman,  William,  8,  25 
Bergen,  Hans  Hansen,  13,  16 
Bescher,  Thomas,  11,  12 
Bets,  Tomas,  11,  12 
Byeenwooninge  (village),  9 
Bijlvelt,  Bijleveldt,  Bylevelt,  Peter,  Mss. 
37,  3,  4,  5,  6 

Farm,  Mss.  37 
Blacks,  the  Company's  slaves,  16 
Blackwell,  Estate,  17 

Island,  16,  17,  28 

Robert,  17 
Blauw,  Garrit  Dirksen,  21 
Block,  Adrien,  34 
Blom,  Barent  Jansen,  16 
Blommaerts  Kill,  6 
Board  of  Commissaries,  10 
Boere  Backer,  11,  13 
Bogardus,  Domine,  17 
Bossen  Bouwerie,  11 
Bout,  Jan  Everts,  20 
Breyle,  Pieter,  12 
Bronx,  Bronck;  Borough  of,  26 

County,  1 

Farm,  26 

Jonas,  25 

Treaty,  26 

ville,  26 


Brooklyn,  20,  23 

Brouwer,  Jan  Jansen,  3 

Calendar  of  Historical  Manuscripts,  5 

Canal  Street,  11,  17 

Cantelburg,  10 

Castle  Island  (near  Albany),  5,  9 
Chimney  Sweep,  26 
Church,  the  first,  27 

in  the  Fort,  27,  28 

Reformed  or  Protestant,  27 
City  Seal  of  Nieuw  Amsterdam,  viii 
Claesen,  Jan,  18 
Coedyck,  18 
Coerten,  Geurt,  11 
Collaar,  Jacob,  13 
Collect  pond,  17 
Columbian  Exhibition,  2 
Communipaw,  7,  20 
Concord,  4 
Conover  family,  5 

Conyne  Eyland,  Map  39  &  47,  18,  33 

Cooper  (Kuyper)  family,  21 

Copenhagen,  25 

Cos,  Claes  Pietersen,  20 

Costello  Map,  27 

Corlaers  Hoeck,  13 

Cornelissen,  Claes,  Mss.  37 

Gysbert,  13 
Coseyn,  24 

Couwenhoven,  Wolfert  Gerritsen,  Mss. 
37 

Crazy  Smith's  hill,  9 
Cromwell's  Creek,  26 
Damen,  Jan,  18 
Davit,  the  Provoost,  18 
De  Forest,  Henry,  15,  16 

Isaac,  25 

Jesse,  15 

Rachel,  15 
De  Grauw,  Leendert  Arentsen,  5 
De  Lacher,  Lachers,  Jan  (Jande),  20 
De  Laets  Island,  6 
Delavall,  Captain,  17 
De  Meyer,  Nicholas,  10 
De  Neve  Sinx,  Mr.  Lesle,  11 


29 


30 


MA  NBA TTA N 


Denmark,  25 
De  Rasieres,  Isaac,  3,  10 
De  Reux,  de  Reus,  Gerrit  Theusz,  Mss. 
37,  5,  6,  8 

Farm,  Mss.  37,  44 
Deutel  Bay,  14 

Kill,  3,  14 

De  Vries,  Captain  Davidt  Pieters,  21,  22 
Dey,  Dirck  Jansen,  24 
Dieryck  the  Norman,  24 
Dirck  the  Paver,  24 

Kill,  24 
Dircksen,  Barent,  12 
Documentary  History  of  New  York,  27 
Domine's  Hook,  19 

Dutch  West  India  Company  (see  West 

India  Company),  20 
East  River,  3,  14 

Eendragt  (Concord  or  Union),  4,  10 

Everts,  Jan,  20 

Evertsen,  Volckcrt,  12 

Fiscock,  Edward,  11,  13 

Flatlands,  L.  I.,  5,  23 

Focken,  Evert,  Mss.  37,  9,  45,  46 

Fonteyn,  Montanye's,  16 

Fort,  Amsterdam,  2,  27,  28,  36 

Hope  on  the  Connecticut  River,  18 

Orange,  Mss.  37 
Fyn,  Francis  (Francoys),  17 
Frederickse,  Kryn,  27' 
French  Government,  2 
Gegoergesyn,  23 
Gelderland,  8 

Gerritsen  (Gerrets),  Cosyn,  24 
Farm,  24 

Wolfert,  Mss.,  5,  6,  23 
Gorter,  Abraham  Pietcrsen,  8 
Governors  Island,  22,  28 
Government  House,  27,  28 
Grain  Mill,  28 
Great  Barents  Island,  16 
Great  Sands,  The,  16 

Kill,  26 
Greenwich  Village,  11,  24 
Hackensack  River,  1 
Hall,  Thomas,  13 
Hansen,  Hans,  from  Bergen,  13, 16 
Harlem,  Creek,  15 

River,  15,  25 

History  of,  25 
Harmensen,  Reynert,  3 
Harrisse,  Henry,  2 
Hartgers,  Joost,  2 
Helle  Gadt,  Map  39  &  47 
Hendric  the  Tailor,  18 
Hendrixsen  (Hendricsen),  Rutger,  9 

William,  13 
Het  Meeuwtje  (The  Little  Meu),  a  ship,  3 
Heyseys  Indians,  16 
Hoboken,  N.  J.,  19,  21 


Holland  Society  of  New  York,  The,  I,  2,  3, 

19,  28,  36,  38,  40 
Holstein,  10 

Hoogen  Hoeck,  Map  39  &  47,  1 
Hoorn,  6 
Horse-Mill,  27 
Hudde,  Andries,  15,  23 

Rutger,  23 
Hulst  and  Van  Keulen,  2 
Iconography  of  Manhattan,  33 
Indian,  Heyseys,  16 

Kakapetayno,  23 

Keskackau,  Map  39  &  47,  5 

Numers,  16 

Mareckewick  Map  39  &  47 

Pewickaas,  23 

Teckkones,  Map  39  &  47 

Wick  Quawank,  Map  39  &  47 
Indian  War  of  1643,  20 
Innes,  J.  H.,  2 
Jacobsen,  Cornelius,  12 
Jans,  Anneke,  10,  17 

Lysbeth,  18 
Janse,  Auche,  18 

Jansen  (Jansz),  Anthony  (see  Van  Salee), 
17 

Claes,  21 

Gerrit,  12,  13 

Hendric,  18,  19 

Tymen,  19 
Jochem  Pieters  flats,  25 
Kakapeteyno  Indians,  23 
Kalck-Hook,  17 
Kaxkeek,  26 
Keskackau  Indians,  5 
Kieft,  Director  (Governor),  4,  7,  8,  12, 

14,  15,  10,  20,  21 
Kill  Mannepus,  26 
King  David  (ship),  21 
Kingsbridge  Road,  25 
Kip,  family,  26 

Hendrick  Hcndricksen,  7,  26 
Kouwenhoven  family,  5 
Krol,  Bastiaen  Jansz,  4 
Kuyper  (Cooper)  family,  21 
Kuyter,  Captain  Jochem  Pieters,  25 
Laeter  Hoeck,  20 
Lampo,  Jan,  Mss.  37,  10,  45 
La  Montagne,  Johan  (see  Montagne),  7, 

15,  16 
Laughing  John,  20 
Legion  of  Honor,  2 

Lestleys  (Lesle),  Francis,  11,  12,  13 
Library  of  Congress,  Map  39  &  47,  Mss. 
37,  2 

Little  Meu,  The,  3 

Long  Island,  1,  2,  14,  22,  23,  24,  27 

Loockermans,  Anneken,  12 

Govert,  12 
Love,  7 


INDEX 


3i 


Maeryenes,  21 

Maiden  Lane,  15 
Mallesmits  berch,  9 

Manhattan  (Manatus),  Map  39  &  47,  1,2, 
6,  7,  11,  23,  24,  27,  28 
Iconography  of,  33 
Mannepus  Kill,  26 
Manning,  John,  17 
Mareckewick  Indians,  Map  39  &  47 
Meeuken  (Sea  Meu),  3 
Melyn,  22 
Mertensdyk,  12 
Mespachtes  Kill,  19 
Mill  Creek  (Communipaw),  20 
Minnahanonck,  16 
Minuit,  Peter,  3,  4,  10,  43 
Molemaecker,  Francois,  27 
Montagne,  Dr.  Johannes  Mousnier  de  La, 
15,  16 

Montanye's  Fonteyn,  16 

Point,  16 
Morningside  Heights,  15 
Morrisania,  25 
Mount  Morris  Park,  15 
Muscoota,  15 
Nechtans,  13 

Nederhorst,  the  Lord  of,  22 

New  Amsterdam,  2,  3,  17 

Newark  Bay,  1 

New  Brighton,  L.  I.,  22 

Newman,  Abraham,  12 

New  Netherland,  3,  10,  20,  21,  22,  24 

Seal  of,  viii 
Newtown,  Long  Island,  17,  19 
New  Utrecht,  14 
New  York  City  Seal,  viii 
Nine  Men,  18,  26 
Noort  River,  Map  39  &  47,  24 
Nooten  Island,  22,  28 
Norman,  Claes  Carstensz,  24 
Notelman,  Coenraet  (Cousin),  Mss.  37,  8, 
46 

Numers  Indians,  16 

Nut  Island,  22 

Nykerk,  14 

Nysen,  Tonis,  11 

O'Callaghan,  13,  27 

Ockholm,  16 

Old  Jan  (John  Seals),  10 

Ontangele,  Loen,  15 

Orange  County,  10 

Oranje  Boven,  28 

Otter-Spoor,  14,  15,  16 

Paauw  (Pauw),  Mr.,  Mss.  37,  20,  46 

Pagganch  Island,  22,  28 

Pannebacker,  22,  23,  33 

Pannebackery  Map  39  &  47,  22,  28,  33 

Paris,  2 

Passaic  River,  1 
Pavonia,  7,  9,  10 


Peaceful  Dale,  16 

Petersen  (Pietersz,  Pietersen),  Abraham,  8 

Adrian,  7,  13 

Hendrick,  13 

Jan,  10 
Pewickaas  Indians,  23 
Pieters,  Davidt,  21 

Poelen,  25 
Plank  (Ver  Plank),  Abram  Isaacsen,  21 
Post  (Pos),  Symon  Dircksen,  3 
Pouelis  Hoeck  (Hook),  16,  21 
Predikant,  17 

Provincial  Seal  of  Nieuw  Nederland,  viii 

Provoost,  Provost  family,  18 

Queen  Anne,  17 

Quiet  Dale,  16 

Rabbit  Island,  33 

Ramapo  Valley,  10 

Rapalie,  Joris  Jansen,  23,  24 

Sara,  23 
Raritan  Indians,  22 
Ravenswood,  17 
Red  Hoeck,  Map  39  &  47,  22 
Rechawanes,  16 
Reed  Valley,  13 

Rensselaer,  K.  V.  (see  Van  Rensselaer), 

Mss.  37,  46 
Rensselaerswyck,  6,  7,  12 
Riker,  James,  25 
Rinnegachonck,  23 
Rockland  County,  10 
St.  Maartensdijk,  12 
Salt,  Meadow,  9,  19,  24 

Mountain,  6 

Works,  33 
Sanders,  Tomes,  9 

Thomas,  9 
Sant  Point,  Map,  1 
Sapokanikan,  11,  24 
Saw  Mill,  28 

Schorstinveger,  Pieter,  26 
Schout-Fiscal,  3,  9,  10 
Sea  Meu,  3 
Seals,  John,  10 

Seals,  Provincial  Seal  of  Nieuw  Nederland, 
viii 

City  Seal  of  New  Amsterdam,  viii 

New  York  City  Seal,  viii 
Senikant,  17 
Sleswick,  16 
Sloat  family,  10 
Slot,  family,  10 

Jan  Pietersen,  10 
Smith's  Valley,  9,  19,  24 
Soest,  Rutger  Hendrixsen,  Mss.  37,  45-46 
Soutbergh,  Den,  6,  7 
Stad  Huys,  38 

Staten  Island,  1,  21,  22,  Map  39  &  47 

Stevensen,  Oloff,  12 

Stille,  Cornelius  Jacobsen,  8,  12 


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MANHA TTAN 


Stokes,  I.  N.  Phelps,  33 
Stuyvesant,  Peter,  4,  17,  25 
Swamp,  The,  9,  19,  24 
Swits  (Switz),  Claes  Cornelissen,  Mss.  37, 
6,  7,  14,  25,  44 

Cornells  Claesen,  7,  25 
Tablets,  34,  36,  38 
Tailor,  The,  Map  39  &  47,  26 
Teckkonis  Indians,  Map  39  &  47 
t'Eyland  Manatus,  Map  39  &  47 
Tholen,  12 
Trinity  Church,  17 
Turtle  Bay,  14 
Twelve  Men,  7,  22,  24 
Union,  4 
Utrecht,  5 
Vale  of  Blessing,  25 
Valentine  Family,  19 
Van    Corlaer    (Van   Curler),  Jonkheer 

Jacobus,  7,  13, 14,  23 
Van  Cortlandt,  Oloff  Stevensen,  12 
Van  Couwenhoven,  farm,  Mss.  37,  43 

Jacob  Wolfersen,  7 

Wolfert  Geritsz,  4,  5,  8,  23 
Van  Curler,  Jacobus,  13,  14 
Vande  Linde,  Dr.  Pieter,  7,  26 
Van  Deursen  family,  8 
Van  Deusen,  Captain  Albert  H.,  8 
Van  Gelder,  Geurdt,  Mss.  37,  8,  45,  46 
Van  Harlem,  Abraham  Pietersen,  8 
Van  Keulen's  Hoeck,  10,  14,  15,  25 
Van  Keulen,  Coenraet,  14,  15 
Van  Laer,  A.  J.  F.,  State  Archivist,  27 
Van  Naarden,  Barent  Dircksen,  12 
Van  Nuyse,  18 

Van  Purmerent,  Claes  Jansen,  21 
Van  Putten,  Aert  Teunissen,  20 

Cosyn  Gerritsen,  24 
Van  Rensselaer,  Kiliaen,  Mss.  37,  3,  4,  5, 

6,  7,  8,  11,  37,  41,  46 
Van  Rotterdam,  Jan,  12 
Van  Salee,  Anthony  Jansen,  17 
Van  Soest,  Rutger  Hendrixen,  9,  10 
Van  Thienhoven,  Cornelis,  14,  16 
Van  Twiller,  Wouter,  4,  5,  11,  14,  15,  16, 
17, 21,  22,  23,  24,  28 


Van  Vechten,  Teunis  Dircksen  Poentes,  5 
Van  Voorst  (Vorst),  Cornelius,  9,10,  19 

Jan  Cornelius,  Mss.  37,  9,  10,  19,  40 
Van  Vorst,  Hendrick  Cornelissen,  19,  20 
Van  Winkle,  Edward,  1 

Farm,  Map  39  &  47,  Mss.  37,  44 

Jacob  (Jacop)  Walings,  Walich,  Waling- 
sen,  Mss.  37,  6,  12,  14,  44 
Verhorst,  Director,  22 

The  Lord  of  Nederhorst,  22 
Verplank,  Abram  Isaacsen,  21 
Versteeg,  Dingman,  v.,  2,  Map  39  &  47 
Vingboom,  Joan,  1,  2,  3,  5,  14,  17,  18,  27, 

33,  35,  39,  47 
Volkersen,  Dieryck  (Dirk),  24 
Vredendael,  7,  16 
Vreeland,  Michael  Jansen,  20 
Walich,   Waling,   Walingen,  Walingsen, 
Jacob  (Jacop),  Mss.  37,  6,  12,  14,  44 
Waling,  House  of,  7,  12 
Walingstein  (The  House  of  Waling),  7,  12 
Wallabout,  23,  24 
Walloon  Family,  15 
Wards  Island,  16 
Warren  Street,  17 

Wautersen  (Watterson),  Egbert,  20 
Weehawken,  N.  J.,  21 
Wesel,  Germany,  3,  13 
Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  1,  26 
West  India  Company,  1,  3,  4,  6,  9, 10,  21, 
22 

Wick  Quawank  Indians,  Map  39  &  47 
William  Street  (South),  27 
Wilson,  Edward,  11 
Winkel,  North  Holland,  6 

Straat,  New  Amsterdam,  27 
Wissinck,  Jacob  Elbertsen,  3 
Wood,  John,  12 
Wortendyke  family,  12 
Wortendyke,  Cornelius  Jacobsen  Stille,  8 
Ydes,  farm,  Mss.  44 

Jehan,  Mss.  37,  6 
Zeegendal,  25 
Zeeland,  12 
Zierikzee,  12 
Zuyder  Zee,  7 


1624-1639 


APPENDIX 

At  the  time  this  manuscript  was  completed  there  came  from 
the  press  Volume  I  of  the  exhaustive  work  of  I.  N.  Phelps  Stokes 
called  The  Iconography  of  Manhattan  Island  in  which  appears 
a  half-page  reproduction  of  both  the  Vingboom  and  Costello 
Maps,  with  a  note  that  the  description  appears  in  Appendix, 
Volume  II.,  not  yet  issued  in  May  19 16. 


CONEY  ISLAND 

Manhattan's  famous  cosmopolitan  summer  resort  and 
pleasure  ground  is  indicated  on  the  Vingboom  Map  as  Conyne 
Eylant,  which  is  a  modification  of  Konijne  the  Dutch  for  Rab- 
bit Island.  Just  how  early  this  "  island,"  which  is  shown  as 
a  peninsula,  was  named  is  not  known,  but  in  1639  it  is  boldly 
in  evidence.  In  165 1  a  salt  works  was  located  there  with 
extensive  "  salt  pans  "  exposed  to  the  sun  for  the  evaporation 
of  the  water. 


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APPENDICES 
A  is  a  photographic  copy  of  the  Van  Rensselaer  manuscript. 


B  is  a  photographic  reproduction  of  the  Vingboom  Map. 


C  is  an  English  translation  of  A. 


D  is  a  full-size  reproduction  of  Map  with  English  trans- 
lation of  insert  and  data. 


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APPENDIX  A 

VAN  RENSSELAER  MANUSCRIPT 


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Original  in  Archives  at  The  Hague  (Koninklijke  Bibliotheek)     ©  Edward  Van  Winkle,  1916 


APPENDIX  B 

VINGBOOM  MAP — THE  ORIGINAL  IN  LIBRARY  OF  CONGRESS 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 


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Original  in  Library  of  Congress,  Washington,  D.  C  .  ©  Edward  Van  Winkle  1916. 


APPENDIX  C 

ENGLISH  TRANSLATION  OF  THE  VAN  RENSSELAER  MANUSCRIPT 


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# 


APPENDIX 


General  List  of  the  Animals  in  New  Netherland  in  May  \t 
Except  that  those  Having  Died  must  be  Deducted 

Bouwerie  No.  i 
Commander's  (Peter  Minuit)  Farm: 

Total    May  Keep    Must  Return 


Mares 


(  i  year  old 
■j  2  years  old 
(  Older 


Stallions 


j  2  years  old 
1  Older 


Cows 


1  year  old 

2  years  old 
Older 


o 
\  2 

u 


Bouwerie  No.  2 
Bylevelt's  Farm 


Mares 


Cows 


|  i  year  old 
{  Older 

(  i  year  old 
I  2  years  old 
(  Older 


o 
4 

il 


Bouwerie  No.  ) 

Wolfert  Gerritsen's  (Couwenhoven)  Farm: 


Mares 


f  i  year  old 
1  Older 


Stallions     2  years  old  (i  o)  o 

1  From  among  these  the  director  may  also  retain  the  Company's  stallion. 


44 


MAN HA TTAN 


Total    May  Keep  Must  Return 

(  i  year  old  30  3 

Cows       ]  2  years  old  1  \  2}  o 

( Older  j  5  4  j  o 

Bulls         Older  20  2 

Sheep  20  6  141 


Bouwerie  No.  4 
Jehan  Ydes  or  Gerrit  De  Reux: 

Mares 
Cows 


2  years  old 

1 

Older 

\l 

a 

0 

2  years  old 

0 

2 

0 

Older 

4 

4 

0 

1  year  old 

2 

0 

2 

2  years  old 

2 

0 

0 

•4 

6 

8 

Bulls 
Sheep 


Bouwerie  No.  5 
Jacop  Walichs  (Van  Winkel)  or  Claes  Cornelissen  (Swits): 


Mares 


Stallic 


Cows 


Bulls 


Sheep 

1  He  must  also  retain  his  share  of  the  natural  increase. 


i  year  old 

2 

0 

2 

2  years  old 

1 

Older 

{; 

3 

0 

1  year  old 

1 

0 

1 

2  years  old 

1 

0 

1 

1  year  old 

2 

0 

0 

2  years  old 

0 

2 

0 

Older 

4 

4 

0 

1  year  old 

1 

0 

2  years  old 

1 

0 

22 

6 

16 

APPENDIX 


Bouwerie  No.  6 
Geurdt  Van  Gelder: 


Mares 

Cows 

Bulls 
Sheep 


2  years  old 
Older 

1  year  old 

2  years  old 
Older 

2  years  old 


Total    May  Keep    Must  Return 


Bouwerie  No.  j 

Evert  Focken  or  Rutger  Hendrixsen  Soest: 


Mares 


Older 


!i  year  old 
2  years  old 
Older 

Sheep 


1  too  many 

2  short 
i  short 

9  too  many 


Bouwerie  No.  8 
Jan  Lampo  or  Cornells  Van  Voorst: 

(  l  year  old 
Mares  Older 


Cows 

Bulls 
Sheep 


f  2  years  old 
t  Older 

i  year  old 


i  too  many 
o 

1  short 

2  short 

1  too  many 

2  too  many 


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MAN  HA  TTAN 


THE  SUMMARY  SHOWS  FOR  THE  EIGHT  FARMS: 


Mares 


6  too  many  i  year  old 
5   "     "     2  years  old 


Stallions 


1  too  many  i  year  old 

2  "     "     2  years  old 


Cows 


I 


9  too  many  i  year  old 
3  short  2  years  old 
2    "  Older 


Bulls 


4  too  many  i  year  old 
2  "  "  2  years  old 
2  "      "  Older 


Sheep 


43  too  many 


Those  having  too  many  must  return,  those  having  too  few 
must  receive,  as  each  one  has  to  pay  the  same  amount. 

In  the  first  place  Cousin  Notelman  will  please  see  to  it  the 
farm  of  Evert  Focken  or  Rutger  Hendrixse  Van  Soest,  being 
my  farmhand,  shall  be  furnished  up  to  4  horses,  4  cows,  2 
young  oxen,  6  sheep,  6  pigs,  as  I  must  have  the  same  number 
provided  I  pay  the  Company  like  others. 

Next  your  Honor  will  also  take  care  that  the  farm  of  Geurt 
Van  Gelder  which  has  been  allotted  to  you,  and  the  cattle  left 
to  me,  shall  also  be  supplied,  and  to  send  to  Fort  Orange,  viz. 
4  horses,  4  cows,  2  young  oxen,  6  sheep,  6  pigs.  Of  the  re- 
mainder, as  per  the  above  summary,  I  must  receive  one  half 
and  Mr.  Paauw  the  other  half.  I  have  not  nearly  received  my 
share  of  it.  Yea,  my  farm  of  Evert  Focken  is  not  completely 
provided,  unless  Wulfert  Gerritsen  could  more  specifically 
inform  you  about  the  same.    This  July  2,  163 1,  at  Amstrd. 


(signed)  K.  V.  Rensselaer. 


APPENDIX  D 

FULL-SIZE  COPY  WITH  ENGLISH  TRANSLATION  OF  THE  VINGBOOM 
MAP 


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